OUTLINE plans have been submitted for a major development of 120 homes next to Milford Hospital.

Around 12 hectares of the original hospital site were declared surplus to requirements in 2000 and the land was identified as a major developed site suitable for housing.

But a scheme for 210 new homes put forward in 2007 triggered strong objections that the isolated green belt site accessed by narrow Tuesley Lane could not cope with such a high-density development.

The application just submitted by the national housing and regeneration company Homes and Communities Agency, which owns the site known as Upper Tuesley, follows the supplementary planning document recently produced by Waverley Borough Council to guide future development.

For full story, see this week's Haslemere Herald.